Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Bully Bullie
"This minotaur! It's outrageous! ”
Below Zhao Meng,
A minotaur is beating a robin.
As for why the bullboy beat the robin, or because the robin fed the chicks of the bullhead to death.
I saw the robin chirping and fleeing.
And the bull-headed bird still refuses to give up,
It threw out all the eggs left in the robin's nest.
Then the "foot" kicked the robin's nest over.
Zhao Meng, who saw this scene, was stunned for a long time, and only then did he come back to his senses when he heard the sound of the bull-headed bird flapping its wings and about to fly away.
Looking at the bull-headed bird that flew away, Zhao Meng held back for a long time before he held back a sentence:
"It's a fucking nest parasite!"
Zhao Meng felt that his three views had been subverted, did such a bird really exist in his previous life?
……
Zhao Meng, who hurriedly entered the second simulation, followed the bull-headed bird all the time, looking for the reason for the brown-headed bulloriole's victory.
And this one is more than half a month,
At first, the bullhead behaved normally, foraging with the robin, changing the color of the eggs.
Secretly lay eggs in the robin's nest and carry out the nest parasitism process.
It wasn't until the chicks of the bullhead began to hatch that the brown-headed cowbird behaved a little strangely.
The bird began to return to its previously parasitic nest to check its hatching.
From here, the behavior of the brown-headed bullbird and the cuckoo bird is different.
After the cuckoo bird plays with the nest parasitism, it generally lets it go and leaves its offspring in a state of resignation.
However, the minotaur returns to its previous nest to check on the condition of its offspring.
At first, Zhao Meng didn't understand this kind of behavior,
But he soon discovered that some robins had a strong ability to parasitize against nests.
Once a robin notices something unusual in its nest, it will not hesitate to peck at it and throw it out.
In this case, the bullhead has to re-parasitize the nest to replace the eggs that have been thrown out.
After observing this situation, Zhao Meng finally understood why the score between himself and the bullhead was so different.
He underestimated the robin's reaction.
Although he understood this, he couldn't understand what had just happened anyway.
"Why would this bull-headed bird attack the robin and its nest when he sees his chick dead?"
"Is the behavior of such a bully just for revenge?"
Such a thought flashed through his heart,
But he vetoed it again,
Birds have a very fast metabolism, which determines that many birds have an efficient and purposeful behavior, and will not do some useless work.
Zhao Meng, who has been a bird several times, knows the state of birds very well.
But even if he understood the bird, he couldn't understand what the bull-headed bird's behavior of flipping the table was for.
With doubts, Zhao Meng continued to track the minotaur.
Fortunately, many phenomena in the biological world, only patient observation and analysis, can always find some eyebrows,
In the process of tracking the minotaur,
He found that robins rebuild their nests at a faster rate when they find that their nests have been destroyed, and the bullboys take the opportunity to lay eggs in the new nests.
Maybe it's because re-establishing the nest is too hasty,
The robin's ability to identify eggs has declined, and the process of parasitism in the new nest has been particularly smooth.
In addition, Zhao Meng also observed an even more terrifying phenomenon.
Perhaps because of the rebirth, which led to a lack of nutrition, the newly born chicks of the robin could not compete with the chicks of the bullhead at all,
There are also one or two chicks in the last litter competing with the chicks of the bullhead for one or two.
But these chicks in the new nest can easily be squeezed out of the nest.
A day or two after the birth of the bull-headed chicks,
The nestlings and unhatched eggs in the nest are all gone.
Only the chicks of the bull-headed bird can only open their mouths, a picture of waiting to be fed.
"This bull-headed bird is too bad!"
Zhao Meng, who had completely observed the fertility strategy of the brown-headed bullbird, sighed in his heart.
He thought the cuckoo bird was bad enough,
I didn't expect that there was a worse existence in nature than cuckoo birds.
……
Summer is coming again,
Zhao Meng, who didn't lay many eggs, looked at the bull-headed bird on the other branch, and some thoughts occurred in his heart
"If you calculate the proportion of chicks surviving, this simulation has failed!"
"What happens if you kill the minotaur in the first place?"
At this point, the situation is a foregone conclusion,
But Zhao Meng still wanted to try it and see if there would be any punishment for killing this hateful minotaur.
If there is no punishment, then the next time he simulates, he may be able to use some means to cheat.
Of course, cheating is secondary, and Zhao Meng mainly looks at this bird uncomfortable.
……
……
Three days later,
[Simulation failed! 】
Looking at these words, Zhao Meng sighed:
"Sure enough, there are still limits!"
At this time, Zhao Meng's claws were stepping on a bleeding bird corpse.
Neither he nor the minotaur are birds of prey, but as a human he knows how to use tools, so it is not difficult to kill the minotaur.
The consequence of killing the minotaur is to directly determine that the simulation has failed
"Looks like you can't cheat!"
"Can you only lay eggs honestly?"
Zhao Meng's consciousness returned to his body again, and this time he was not in a hurry to start the next simulation,
Instead, I opened my eyes and found some pen and paper to summarize something.
"The main bird in that jungle is the robin!"
"And robins are very anti-parasitic, and it's hard to lay eggs in them without being detected!"
"And the robin's nest is different from ordinary nests, with a nest edge structure, and it is not easy for one's own nests to push other nestlings out!"
"More importantly, once the brown-headed bullbird finds that its offspring are not born properly, it will destroy the nest and break the table......"
Summing up here, Zhao Meng realized that the simulation of the second week of the cuckoo was not simple.
He reviewed the bull's fertility strategy and found that there were many benefits to attacking the nest.
"Nests that are built in a hurry are looser, and it is easier for their offspring to exclude other chicks!"
"Am I going to learn the bull too?"
"Not only do you have to borrow the nest to lay eggs, but you also have to beat the owner of the nest!"
"This ......"
The sense of morality in Zhao Meng's heart is a little resistant to this approach.
But he has already had many inappropriate experiences,
It is very clear that in the cruel biological world, the so-called justice and morality of human beings never exist.
Naturally occurring wildness reigns supreme.
Thinking of this, Zhao Meng rested slightly, closed his eyes, and prepared to start a new simulation.
"I don't know, what kind of entries will be unlocked in these two weeks?"
……
When Zhao Meng was simulating,
Bai Geng walked in from outside the courtyard, and he was about to say something, when he saw Zhao Meng with his eyes closed, as if he was practicing some kind of practice,
didn't make a sound, but quietly waited for Zhao Meng to wake up.